Steve Ostrow, the founder of the Continental Baths an extravagant gay men's sex club and performance space that flourished at the turn of the 1970s in the basement of the Ansonia Hotel, a Beaux-Arts landmark on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and launched the careers of Bette Midler and Barry Manilow died on Feb. 3 at his home in Sydney, Australia. He was 91.
The Continental Baths included a mirrored disco and a black marble steam room, as well as a restaurant, a chapel, a gym, a travel desk, a boutique and a V.D. clinic.Credit...via Steve Ostrow
The Ansonia Hotel, which encompasses a full city block on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was the perfect setting for Mr. Ostrow's expansive vision.Credit...Meyer Liebowitz/The New York Times
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